‘Structuralism and Literary Criticism’ - Gerard Genette Structuralism is a way to examines a literary text to arrive at their meaning‚ rather than the actual meanings of the text themselves. It is a study of structure wherever they occur. In the essay Genette analyses content‚ logics‚ grammars and semiotics. He is considering structuralism as a method to study literary criticism. In the beginning of the essay Genette is establishing difference between Bricoleur and Engineer‚ Art critic and Literary critic and
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Feminist literary criticism Throughout the years‚ women have struggled for proper treatment and life style. They were oppressed and seen a male property. They were deprived for their simplest rights‚ even putting their thoughts into words. This situation led to the emergence of feminism‚ which is a set of ideologies that were meant to defend women’s rights in different areas of life‚ in other words it is the struggle for women’s rights. This set of ideologies‚ feminism‚ extended into
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Psychological concepts in A Clockwork Orange At the start of A Clockwork Orange‚ you are introduced to Alex and his droogs. They are at a milkbar drinking milk-plus. Milk‚ plus types of drugs that enhance Alex and his droogs ultraviolence‚ which is the main backdrop to the story that leads to other psychological events. Drug addiction is a complex disorder that is compulsive and often uncontrollable. This is a chronic relapsing disorder‚ and treatment for drug addiction is about as effective
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A Clockwork Orange: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish A Clockwork Orange received critical acclaim‚ made more than thirty million dollars at the box office‚ and was nominated for various awards; however‚ this esteemed film was outlawed from the nation of Great Britain in order to curb its immoral content from permeating society. Before all the controversy began‚ A Clockwork Orange was a novel‚ written mostly in Russian‚ by Anthony Burgess. Stanley Kubrick is known to critics as a film maker who probes
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In this psychological literary criticism of On the Lake‚ by Olaf Olafsson‚ the characters Margret and Oskar will be analyzed. The main conflict is the determining of Oskar’s character; the question that keeps Margret unsettled until the climax of the short story. Throughout the short story‚ Margret subtly questions her husband’s character. She often compares Oskar to her father. “She had mentioned it before‚ and Oskar hadn’t hidden his opinion that her father’s rules had no place in their home”
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10 Literary Criticism approach An Overview of Approaches The Three-fold Purpose of Criticism: To help us solve a problem in the reading. To help us sift between and resolve conflicting readings. To enable us craft interpretative‚ yet scholarly judgments about literature. 1. Historical / Biographical Approach: Historical / Biographical critics see works as the reflection of an author’s life and times (or of the characters’ life and times). H/B approach deems it necessary to know about the
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"A Clockwork Orange" "A Clockwork Orange" is a film about a gang of "droogs" who take pleasure in crime. They enjoy raping and torturing their innocent victims for their own pleasure. The main characters ’ name is Alex. Alex ’s diagnosis is Antisocial Personality Disorder (Psychopath). When caught and arrested‚ classical conditioning is used in order to rid Alex of his vindictive thoughts‚ but is not very successful. Antisocial Personality Disorder is a Disorder that cannot be easily diagnosed
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cycle" films using the article entitled "The Left and Right Cycles" by Robert Ray. To help me explore what makes up a "left cycle" film‚ I will compare two movies‚ both "left cycle" according to Ray. Those movies are "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Clockwork Orange". What makes both of these movies "left cycle"‚ and how to they differ within that classification? First‚ I think it is important to differentiate between the "left" and "right" movies. What Ray says to this is "the three factors that superficially
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A Developmental Study of Alex in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange Synopsis of A Clockwork Orange In A Clockwork Orange‚ the main character is that of a mildly young child of 15 who‚ along with his fellow friends‚ or "Droogs"‚ partake in evenings of Ultra-Violence. Ultra Violence consists of random beatings‚ theft‚ destruction‚ and rape. The main character‚ Alex‚ is the self-proclaimed leader of the pack‚ and makes judgment on their actions pending on his mood. His Droogs eventually find themselves
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possibility of moral transformation‚ or an increase in wisdom‚ operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing” (Burgess). In the novel A Clockwork Orange a moral transformation is shown whereas in the film it is absent. Although Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange and the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film version are similar in matters of the use of nadsat language and the presence of a self-serving deceitful government‚ they are however different in terms
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